Elizabeth Hazan's solo exhibition Weather is on view at Pamela Salisbury Gallery from April 12th - May 11th, 2025.
The show features an array of landscape paintings from Hazan.
Weather refers to both the conditions I create in my paintings, the atmospheric forces, the kinds of light, and to the interior climate of my imagination. It is also a nod to Jenny Offilll’s fantastic novel, Weather, in which the narrator struggles with the absurdity of trying to process information about climate change and its profound implications.
I paint imaginary landscapes that suggest nature off kilter. The imagery in my work is a mixture of invention and something that I recall, often from childhood. I work from a hovering, aerial vantage point as if over an empty farm field, and move between looping, investigatory lines and floods of color. I employ a tilt-shift perspective so that the ground below rakes up to large forms that evoke trees and clouds, shapes I play with to draw out their inherent oddness and strange beauty. I am thinking as much about how the lines take the viewer around the picture, as I am about evoking the light and air of a specific landscape, mining the fertile border between landscape and abstraction. The term dream logic feels apt, where there are elements and light, a charged atmosphere that feel familiar to the viewer, but things verge on the surreal. I want a degree of ambiguity that resists easy naming. -- Elizabeth Hazan
